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Disinformation Interview

In this lengthy interview with Disinformation, I discuss Faitheist, the Humanist Community at Harvard, and more. Fun fact: one of the first books I bought (and put on display in my room) after deciding I was an atheist was their book Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion. Check out the excerpt below, and click here to read it in full.

The concept really resonated with me. Here was an atheist reaching out to religious people, to find common ground and work for equality and social justice. It seemed like a very refreshing approach. I’m familiar with The New atheists such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens. I frankly felt these guys were missing a lot of the aspects of religion that are worthy of support, such as feeding the hungry, providing shelter for the homeless, working with people struggling with addiction – work I had been involved in as an evangelical. Though I definitely wouldn’t categorize myself as a scientific materialist, I actually am on board with the scientific and philosophical objections vocal atheists espouse against Christian fundamentalists. I am actually a former evangelical due to being excommunicated from a Baptist church for questioning literal six day Young Earth Creationism.